Overview

Michael Schillmeier’s work combines process-oriented Sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Empirical Philosophy. He graduated at the LMU Munich/Germany and received his PhD from Lancaster University. He held a Schumpeter-Fellowship (VolkswagenStiftung) to research ‘Innovations in Nano-Medicine’ in Germany and the UK (2010-2015). Main focus of this project is to analyse and engage with the emergence of nanomedical knowledge practices, objects and technologies. He is co-editor of Space & Culture and member of the editorial board of The Sociological Review. 

His empirical and conceptual work is concerned with the becoming of social relations, actors, practices and concerns whereby the 'non-normal', 'unexpected', 'uncommon', or 'unknown' plays a central part. Linking social sciences, philosophy and art he has widely written on the material dynamics and heterogeneity of societal orderings and change. Research topics include STS, dis/abling practices, care practices, health & illness, human/non-human relations, cosmopolitics.

Professor Michael Schillmeier 
Department of Sociology & Philosophy
University of Exeter
Amory Building 328
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Exeter EX4 4RJ

Office Hours 

Term Two 2020 

Mo 10-12

Latest Book 

Eventful Bodies - The Cosmopolitics Of Illness (Ashgate) 

Latest Open Access Publication

Caring for Social Complexity in Nanomedicine 

Latest Edition

Special Volume 1 & 2 Issue "Quo Vadis Nanomedicine: Past, Present and Future of Nanomedicine

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Research

In my research I focus on ways of rethinking the social as eventful relations between humans as well as humans and nonhumans. In particular, my work aims to allow novel ways of sociological thought, social research and socio-political intervention. 

Both my theoretical and empirical work is outlining a caring sociology which is concerned with the complexities of cosmopolitics, i.e. the disruption, questionability and alteration of the normal and taken for granted by the unexpected and unknown. Over the years, I have made a sustained contribution to cross-disciplinary and international research that brings together science, philosophy and art.

I have been intensively written on dis/abling processes, science, medicine & technology, well-being & practices of caring, contagion and illness, non/human agency, materiality and objects, sensory practices and affective relations. 

My latest book Eventful Bodies – The Cosmopolitics of Illness discusses the experiences of illness and how social relations are reshaped and reordered. Reflecting the everyday lives of people with visual disabilities, my book Rethinking Disability – Bodies Senses and Things (Routledge, 2012) offers a novel reading of dis/ability and how everyday practices question and re/configure social normalcy. With Eleoma Joshua (Edinburgh) I edited Disability in German Literature, Film and Theatre (Camden House, NY, 2010). With Joanna Latimer (Cardiff) I published Un/Knowing Bodies (Sociological Review Monograph Series, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), where we explore the body and embodiment in relation to the making and unmaking of social worlds. In collaboration with Miquel Domènech (UABarcelona) I edited New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care (Ashgate, 2010). We analyse the social and cultural impact of new technologies on health care practices and systems. With Jan-Hendrik Passoth and Birgit Peuker, we brought together leading scholars in STS (Latour, Law, Michael, Munro etc.) to discuss Agency without Actors? by introducing ‘New Approaches to Collective Action’ (Routledge, 2012). Most recently, I have published a two volume Special Focus Issue Quo Vadis Nanomedicine for the International Journal Nanomedicine. Together with scientists, philosophers and clinicians I explore the history and possible future of novel nanobiomedical research practices. In my paper Caring about Social Complexity in Nanomedicine I outlines a three-folded concept of public engagement with science and the emerging technologies in health care.     

Between 2010-2015 I held a Schumpeter Fellowship which was funded by the German VolkswagenStiftung to explore 'Innovations in Nanomedicine' and related processes of scientific knowledge and object formation.

Research group links

• Department of Sociology and Philosophy
• Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences

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Projects

• Concerning Relations: Sociologies of Conduct, Care and Affect - funded by: Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness
• Nanomedical Innovations - An Analysis of the Fabrication of Interdisciplinary Scientific Knowledge and Technologies - funded by: VolkswagenStiftung

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Supervision

• Science and Technology Studies
• Sociology of the Body and the Senses
• Disability Studies
• Sociology of Care, Health and Illness
• Sociology of Everyday Life
• Sociology of Risk
• Cosmopolitics
• Sociological Theory
• Science, Art & Philosophy

Research students

Anna Knoll PhD Student - The Nano Linkage 

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Publications

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| 2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 1999 |

2023

• Schillmeier M. (2023) Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises, SPACE AND CULTURE, volume 26, no. 3, pages 284-295, DOI:10.1177/12063312231181535. [PDF]

2022

• Schillmeier M, Stock R, Ochsner B. (2022) Techniques of Hearing History, Theory and Practices, Taylor & Francis.
• Waldschmidt A, Schillmeier M. (2022) Theorieansätze in den Disability Studies, Handbuch Disability Studies, Springer Nature, 73-91, DOI:10.1007/978-3-531-18925-3_5.

2020

• Schillmeier M. (2020) Counter/Infections: Dis/abling Spaces and Cultures, Space and Culture, DOI:10.1177/1206331220941285.
• Shields R, Schillmeier M, Lloyd J, Van Loon J. (2020) 6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine, SPACE AND CULTURE, volume 23, no. 3, pages 216-220, DOI:10.1177/1206331220938622. [PDF]

2019

• Schillmeier M. (2019) How does thinking with dementing bodies and A. N. Whitehead reassemble central propositions of ANT?, The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, 133-142, DOI:10.4324/9781315111667-15.
• Schillmeier M. (2019) Thinking with the living body: The biopsychosocial model and the cosmopolitics of existence, Medical Humanities, volume 45, no. 2, pages 141-151, DOI:10.1136/medhum-2018-011584.

2017

• Schillmeier M. (2017) Foreword, DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3.
• Wilkie A, Michael M. (2017) Doing speculation to curtail speculation, Speculative Research: The lure of possible futures, Routledge and CRESC.
• Schillmeier M. (2017) Gabriel Tarde's Neo-Monadology, 300 Jahre Monadologie: Interpretation, Rezeption und Transformation, F. Steiner, 255-255. [PDF]
• Schillmeier M. (2017) The Cosmopolitics of Situated Care, The Sociological Review.
• Schillmeier M. (2017) Social Studies of Nanopharmaceutical Research, Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology.
• Schillmeier M. (2017) 2Sweet2toKill, Speculative Research - The Lures of possible futures, Routledge.

2016

• Schillmeier M, Domènech M. (2016) New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care - An Introduction, New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care, pages 1-17, DOI:10.4324/9781315598130-1.
• Schillmeier M. (2016) Design and the Art of Care, Care and Design, Wiley, 219-235, DOI:10.1002/9781119053484.ch12.
• Schillmeier M. (2016) Praktiken der Behinderung und Ermöglichung. Behinderung neu denken, senseAbility - Mediale Praktiken des Sehens und Hörens, Transcript.

2015

• Schillmeier M. (2015) What ELSA/I Makes Big and Small in Nanotechnology Research, Absence in Science, Security and Policy, Springer Nature, 55-77, DOI:10.1057/9781137493736_3.
• Barz M, Luxenhofer R, Schillmeier M. (2015) Quo vadis nanomedicine?, Nanomedicine (Lond), volume 10, no. 20, pages 3089-3091, DOI:10.2217/nnm.15.156. [PDF]
• Schillmeier M. (2015) Caring for social complexity in nanomedicine, Nanomedicine, volume 10, no. 20, pages 3181-3193, DOI:10.2217/nnm.15.149.

2014

• Schillmeier M. (2014) Understanding the Social Cosmopolitanism and Gabriel Tarde's Cosmopolitics, CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM, volume 123, pages 93-116, DOI:10.1163/9789004272217_006. [PDF]
• Schillmeier M. (2014) Black Box Wissenschaft - Produktive Kontraste in der Wissenschaftsforschung, Soziale Welt: Zeitschrift fuer sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, pages 187-210.
• Schillmeier M. (2014) Eventful Bodies. The Cosmopolitics of Illness, Routledge, DOI:10.4324/9781315581279.
• Luxenhofer R, Barz M, Schillmeier M. (2014) Quo vadis nanomedicine?, Nanomedicine (Lond), volume 9, no. 14, pages 2083-2086, DOI:10.2217/nnm.14.140. [PDF]

2013

• Schillmeier M. (2013) Realities to be-come: on Cosmopolitics, Informática na educação teoria & prática, volume 16, no. 1, DOI:10.22456/1982-1654.36929.

2012

• Schillmeier M, Domènech M. (2012) New technologies and emerging spaces of care - An introduction.
• Schillmeier M. (2012) Assembling money and the senses: Revisiting Georg Simmel and the city, Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies, 229-252, DOI:10.4324/9780203870631.
• Schillmeier M. (2012) Science, cosmopolitics and the question of agency: Kant's critique and Stengers' event, Agency without Actors?: New Approaches to Collective Action, 31-53.
• Passoth JH, Peuker B, Schillmeier M. (2012) Agency without actors?: New approaches to collective action, DOI:10.4324/9780203834695.
• Passoth J-H, Peuker BM, Schillmeier MWJ. (2012) Agency Without Actors?, Routledge.

2011

• Schillmeier M, Pohler W. (2011) Topologie von (Un-)Sicherheitsstrukturen. Zur Kosmo-Politik viraler Infektionen, Strukturentstehung durch Verflechtung, Brill Deutschland, 49-71, DOI:10.30965/9783846752203_004.
• Schillmeier M. (2011) Unbuttoning normalcy - on cosmopolitical events, Sociological Review, volume 59, no. 3, pages 514-534, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02019.x.

2010

• Schillmeier M, Pohler W. (2010) The Danube and ways of imagining Europe, The Sociological Review, volume 58, no. 2_suppl, pages 23-43, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2011.01959.x.
• Schillmeier MWJ, Domènech M. (2010) New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care, Ashgate Publishing.
• Joshua E, Schillmeier M. (2010) Disability in German Literature, Film, and Theater, Camden House (NY).
• Schillmeier MWJ. (2010) Rethinking Disability, Taylor & Francis.

2009

• Schillmeier M, Heinlein M. (2009) Risiko-Akteur-Netzwerke, Handeln unter Unsicherheit, Springer Nature, 291-302, DOI:10.1007/978-3-531-91674-3_16.
• Tarde GD. (2009) Monadologie und Soziologie, Suhrkamp.
• Tarde GD. (2009) Monadologie und Soziologie, Suhrkamp.
• Schillmeier M. (2009) Monadologie und Soziologie, Monadologie und Soziologie.
• Latimer J, Schillmeier MWJ. (2009) Un/knowing bodies, Wiley-Blackwell.
• Schillmeier M, Domènech M. (2009) Care and the art of dwelling: Bodies, technologies, and home, Space and Culture, volume 12, no. 3, pages 288-291, DOI:10.1177/1206331209337666.
• Schillmeier M, Heinlein M. (2009) Moving homes: From house to nursing home and the (Un-)canniness of being at home, Space and Culture, volume 12, no. 2, pages 218-231, DOI:10.1177/1206331208330759.
• Schillmeier M. (2009) The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond, Hist Human Sci, volume 22, no. 2, pages 87-109, DOI:10.1177/0952695108101287. [PDF]

2008

• Schillmeier M. (2008) Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability, Time & Society, volume 17, no. 3, pages 215-231, DOI:10.1177/0961463X08093423.
• Schillmeier M. (2008) Globalizing risks - The cosmo-politics of SARS and its impact on globalizing sociology, Mobilities, volume 3, no. 2, pages 179-199, DOI:10.1080/17450100802095288.
• Schillmeier M. (2008) (Visual) disability - From exclusive perspectives to inclusive differences, Disability and Society, volume 23, no. 6, pages 611-623, DOI:10.1080/09687590802328493.
• Schillmeier M. (2008) Actor-networks of dementia, Sociological Review, volume 56, no. SUPPL. 2, pages 139-158, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2009.00820.x.

2007

• Schillmeier M. (2007) Dis/abling practices: Rethinking disability, Human Affairs, volume 17, no. 2, pages 195-208, DOI:10.2478/v10023-007-0017-6.
• Schillmeier M. (2007) Dis/abling spaces of calculation: Blindness and money in everyday life, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, volume 25, no. 4, pages 594-609, DOI:10.1068/d4173.

2006

• Schillmeier M. (2006) Othering blindness - On modern epistemological politics, Disability and Society, volume 21, no. 5, pages 471-484, DOI:10.1080/09687590600785910.
• Schillmeier M, Pohler W. (2006) Cosmo-political events. Towards the topology of SARS, Soziale Welt, volume 57, no. 4, DOI:10.5771/0038-6073-2006-4-331.

1999

• Schillmeier M. (1999) Observations on modernity, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, volume 47, no. 3, pages 617-621. [PDF]
• Schillmeier M. (1999) Democracy without enemies, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, volume 47, no. 1, pages 172-175, DOI:10.1111/1467-954X.00168. [PDF]

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Biography

 Diploma - Sociology, LMU Munich / Germany, with a First

 Lecturer LMU Munich 

 PhD Sociology - Lancaster University / Uk. Supervisor: Prof. John Law. External: Michel Callon, with Summa Cum Laude 

 PD Dr. - Habilitation / LMU Munich / Supervisor: Prof. Ulrich Beck

 Assistant Professor - LMU Munich 

 Schumpeter Fellow - VolkswagenStiftung   

 Honory Senior Fellow EGENIS - Exeter

 Full Professor of Sociology - Exeter University     

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